Did you plug the adapter directly into the Dell’s lcd cable? The adapter’s input connector is reverse-direction or upside-down or pin-inverted from a normal LCD connector, plugging directly into any normal LCD connector will destroy the adapter and possibly the LCD and the laptop.
sounds like what happened. I'd assume a generic adapter wouldn't do this.
I figured that 40 pin lvds was 40 pin lvds, didn't realize that the adapter's proprietary cable did funky things with it.
I think I lost the LCD - I can't know for sure until I get another adapter but the backlight no longer lights. E6420 and ThinkPad T430 are both still fine, the T430 just doesn't have a working screen right now. The screen I tested with was a spare with a line defect so I only need a new adapter.
Even if I had checked the pinout I'd assume I could only find what it was for the T430 and E6420 stock, which would both just go to standard 40 pin lvds (I'd assume, an earlier post here says the T420s and T430s might have it flipped), which wouldn't have helped here as I doubt I would have found the pinout for this specific adapter.
Stupid? maybe. But I had to try it. I'll pay the price.Statistics: Posted by astral — Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:42 pm
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